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I suffer from perfectionism. My coworkers complain that I can be too demanding of them (but also of myself). Sometimes I catch myself being really stubborn during a code review (sincere apologies to everyone that was ever affected). If that happens, I try to stop and ask myself - what is this code for? - Angelika Tyborska

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In the same way that in Linux you can access all the resources of the underlying machine through the file system, in a serverless world you can access all the resources of the underlying cloud platform through an HTTPS interface. - Ant Stanley

Some call it eliminating distractions. Some call it flow. Tuning out of your immediate surroundings has been shown to increase focus on internal thinking processes. In this post I’ll dive into both the neurological components as well as folk-advice surrounding this phenomenon. - Andrew Lucker

I’ve heard people complain that fixing broken tests is hard, time consuming and/or a waste of time. My response is where would you rather be fixing that bug? Would you rather it be in production while people are angry features are broken, or in a unit test, prolonging the time it takes to complete a task? - Jack Marchant

It’s one thing to operate memcached when it’s serving a few hundred requests per second; it’s an entirely different kettle of fish when we’re looking at millions of requests per second. Similarly, operating a sharded MySQL cluster servicing hundreds of thousands of writes per second when one has to also reason about MySQL’s I/O thread performance characteristics or remaster a replica with zero downtime is not something your jack-of-all-trades software engineer can pull off with great aplomb. - Cindy Sridharan

Web development is progressing at incredible speed these days and trends that were hot in 2016, today will be considered nothing less than archaic. Users are having more control and power and companies are shifting their services according to the user needs, which may be unpredictable. In this article we will cover the biggest and most promising trends of web development. - Dmitry Budko

When I added that validation behavior I didn’t think much of it. Even looking at the validation it was hard to believe it was responsible for so much load. After all, I only had around 2,000 total repos. So theoretically that call should only have happened about 2,000 times, right? - Richard Schneeman